Pro-opposition news site All4Syria reported Wednesday on the emergence of a new Iraqi militia
entitled the Assad Allah al-Ghalib Brigade fighting alongside regime
forces in the Damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta.
Rebel faction Failaq
al-Rahman released a video
Wednesday of a slain fighter allegedly belonging to the new Iraqi
Shiite faction, which recently entered Outer Damascus with the stated
goal of protecting the area’s Shia holy sites, chief among them the
Sayidda Zeinab shrine 10 kilometers south of Damascus.
The Assad Allah
al-Ghalib Brigade adds to a growing list of foreign Shia fighters
supporting Syrian government forces, chief among them the Lebanese
Hezbollah, Iraq’s Abu al-Fadl al-Abbas Brigade, and elements of the
Iranian Revolutionary Guard. By Syria Direct
Opposition sources report new Iraqi militia in Outer Damascus

Zaman Alwasl
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